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The P in pandemic means “periods still happen”

Posted on May 26, 2020May 27, 2020
Lia delos Reyes

I Support The Girls (ISTG) – Metro Manila provides pads, tampons, bras and other essentials to women amid the COVID-19 crisis, including frontliners. Currently, they’re planning to distribute these to…

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Blk Cosmetics is launching summer fruit-inspired sheet masks to help

Posted on May 12, 2020May 12, 2020
Jacqueline Arias

The summer heat has been unbearable the last few weeks. We know a lot of you have been looking for ways to cool down from wearing breezy cotton shirts to making…

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Emotional labor during the pandemic and how women are (still) taking the brunt of it

Posted on May 1, 2020May 17, 2020
Jacqueline Arias

Think of all the times you were told to put your emotions aside to get something done at work or at home. You were probably told to “put on a…

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Mental health orgs go digital to help frontliners and COVID-19 patients

Posted on April 17, 2020April 18, 2020
Jacqueline Arias

We’ve discussed this before, but it’s worth repeating: It’s so, so important to take care of our mental health amid the COVID-19 crisis. According to the World Health Organization (WHO),…

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Here’s how you can help Lotus Gin Room give food to frontliners

Posted on March 31, 2020March 31, 2020

Lotus Gin Room, a cocktail bar located in Kapitolyo, is accepting funds in order to raise P150,000 to provide 1,000 food packs to health care workers and frontliners from East…

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This local sewing group is making PPEs for health workers

Posted on March 27, 2020
Jacqueline Arias

Good news: More local designers are making personal protective equipment (PPE) for health workers. Designer Mich Dulce started the volunteer group Manila Protective Gear Sewing Club to help produce PPEs…

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Local designers are producing protective gear for frontliners

Posted on March 25, 2020March 25, 2020
Tisha Ramirez

With the COVID-19 pandemic affecting our country, many people are trying to do their part in helping those in need. On social media, we’ve been seeing how fashion designers and…

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Medical technologists are frontliners, too—here’s why

Posted on March 25, 2020March 25, 2020
Lia delos Reyes

I’m pretty sure we’re all tired of those confusing presscons from the government about the enhanced community quarantine. But though we’re now used to hearing the words lockdown, quarantine and…

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LOOK: Netizens aren’t happy with Pres. Duterte’s “emergency powers”

Posted on March 24, 2020June 19, 2020
Jacqueline Arias

While many of us were sleeping, the House of Representatives and the Senate approved a bill on Tuesday, Mar. 24, granting President Rodrigo Duterte the “necessary and proper” powers to…

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These designers are donating retaso masks to frontliners

Posted on March 23, 2020March 23, 2020
Lia delos Reyes

Aside from making masks out of retaso and donating them to frontliners, RIOtaso (a clothing brand that makes use of scrap fabric) is continuing to help remedy the shortage of…

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The P in pandemic means “periods still happen”

Blk Cosmetics is launching summer fruit-inspired sheet masks to help

Emotional labor during the pandemic and how women are (still) taking the brunt of it

Mental health orgs go digital to help frontliners and COVID-19 patients

Here’s how you can help Lotus Gin Room give food to frontliners

This local sewing group is making PPEs for health workers

Local designers are producing protective gear for frontliners

Medical technologists are frontliners, too—here’s why

These designers are donating retaso masks to frontliners

Queer safe spaces in a post-pandemic world—what’s that going to look like?

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Mental health is political for this young Filipina and her global youth network

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